UK producer Eric Lau to release debut through Ubiquity

This cat came on my radar almost 3 years back, through a solid reference from a fellow music junkie. It’s around this time that UK radio host and uber-tastemaker Gilles Peterson caught on to this young unknown producer, and placed Lau on his Brownswood Bubblers release of October 2006.

Lau came at the time where cats like Slum Village, Dilla, Dwele, PPP, were getting big shine, and this unknown crept in with a sound that was equally soulful, with a beat and sampling structure reminiscent of Pete Rock.

Since Eric has provided production to the likes of Lupe Fiasco, Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Guilty Simpson, Wildchild, Tanya Morgan, and Hil St. Soul, while gaining kind words from Benji B, Dego of4Hero, and Phonte of Little Brother. The moonlighting producer is a teacher at a youth-led multimedia education company called RollingSound, offering under-privileged inner-city kids education in the areas of music production, DJ-ing, video gamed design, photography, film and web design.

Ubiquity Records has announced that Eric Lau’s debut LP New Territories will be released March 18, 2008 worldwide. The record features other new faces who Lau has met internationally through collaboration, in the hopes to push each other forward with the music.